In practice very few of those MIT/Caltech graduates go back and work for institutions like ISRO in India (yes a few of them go back to teach in schools like IITs in India). From my experience, most of the people who work for Indian space and related programes had their education in India.
The probability that one will need stem cells from cord blood is very low. Most of the treatment methods are highly experimental and applicable only to a handful of groups. Most of these conditions are identifiable during genetic tests and screening during pregnancy.
At least some of the public blood banks which collect cord blood promise that if you donate cord blood and in future a need arises they will try to locate cord blood which will match the donor (or try to give the donated blood if it is still available). Try to locate a public blood bank which operates like that.
Published in 1984 The UNIX Programming Environment by Brian W. Kernighan and Rob Pike - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Unix_Programming_Environment . The book remains interesting, useful and relevant even now after more than 27 years. It remains a 'must read' for anyone who uses UNIX like systems. Compare this with most of the 'Programming Books' now, which goes out of date within a few months after publishing.
As said somewhere else in this thread, comparing Emirates to AA is really comparing apples to orange. AA is.
This is incorrect. I KNOW that AA is not
multiple times cheaper
- at least for the routes I take. In fact even the actual paid ticket price is comparable (if you compare the maintenance, service, food, checked in charges it may turn out to be cheaper than AA).
, random resets in the middle of movies (with no recourse but to watch the whole movie over again)
That must be a really poorly designed system. I have experience using IFES of a number of non-US carriers - I found them to be really sophisticated and reliable applications (approaching the level of complexity of an operating system). At least in the case of ICE (Emirates) it is Linux (Redhat).
With 2G RAM power consumption is approximately 25W. It handles remote desktop, webserver, live multiple VOIP audio streams,... with a lot of reserve power left. This is a remote unattended system (no physical access) - It has been running almost continuously for the past more than 2 years.
I thought it was disappointing for a pilot episode. I know it is too early (may be it will improve). A combination of the bad elements from SGA and BSG ! Stereotyping of people who work in technology and science. Looks like they plan to stretch it like BSG.
The attitude of the (US) airport security personnel also depends on the locality I guess (I am assuming that most of them are recruited locally).
For example in a tiny airport like Providence (PVD) one will often find unbelievably arrogant security personnel. Security personnel in larger (attached to larger cities) airports - for example like Detroit (DTW) - are often more polite and reasonable.
The Ruppee IS fixed against the dollar. The reason why it was lowered was because good were expensive in India. When they started increasing the value against the dollar, IBM, Verizon, and a number of software companies threatened to pull out of there and return to the USA. As such, India put it back to 48....
This should be moderated as "funny" or "Troll" - I hope someone will do that:)
Right now, the Rupee is FORCED by India to trade at 48 rupee to a dollar.
Not correct - during the past 2 years INR (Indian Rupee) has fluctuated between around 37 to 52 to a USD (right now it is around 48 - exchange rate changes almost daily).
Preliminary analysis shows that Chandrayan likely failed due to inadequate heat shielding (problem was radiated heat from the Moon) causing some of the instruments to fail (like Star Sensor). They raised the orbit to around 200km (from the initial 100km) to save the mission and it did not help much.
According to the report Chandrayan was successful in completing 95 percent of the mission objectives. The reports also said that they (ISRO) are going ahead with the next moon mission.
I remember an online vendor of technical documents which went from no DRM document distribution to highly restrictive DRMed document distribution. This eventually antagonized most of their user base and they actually lost a major portion of their users.
DRM initially gives (especially to the managers) an impression of being an effective way to get more revenue by squeezing the users. Within a short period of time users will find ways to get the same information through other means (irrespective of the sophistication of technology used to implement DRM).
Probably because PICAXE Microcontrollers can be programmed in a simple subset of BASIC.
It is very easy to write code, program and debug (they don't require a special programming interface). They are **really simple** to use, very powerful and versatile.
The lost opportunities and economic stagnation of the past 50 years under the social welfare state show how such narrow mindsets can wreak havoc on a country.
This (often repeated) story about "lost opportunities during first 50 years of India" etc is a myth. It shows a lack of understanding of post independence history of India.
When India became independent there were groups of politicians who repeatedly argued against setting up of national laboratories and research institutions that exist in India right now. They argued that there is no need to "waste" money in those for a country like India, since one can always buy things from outside. If India had followed that approach it would be society with significant problems with poverty and related social tensions right now (If you need proof just look at the state of development of society in the country which is neighbor to India, which became independent during the same time).
It is ridiculous to not to notice significant success of poverty reduction and increase in living standard in a complex society like India without creating major social tensions (if you do not know - famines with repeated crop failures were common in pre-independence India). A lot of the credit for this goes to development of strong independent research and industrial base during the early stages (Indian space program is a part of this).
I used to live near Cincinnati and work on Shortwave Amateur Radio bands a few years back. During a recent visit to that area I noticed extremely strong RFI (radio frequency intereference) on AM and othe bands while driving through - probably the result of the introdiction of BPL service in that area ? From my experience - it will be impossible to use these frequencies for normal communication use.
I am amazed that a services like BPL which caues widespread RFI like this is allowd to operate.
Also since so much of this is being radialted all over the place it will be only a matter of time beofore somone taps into these signals and opens an easily accessible backdor to this type of internet connection (park your vehicle near a powerline - hack in !)
Obviously you have absolutely no idea what you are talikng about. To quote from an article by Arundhati Roy:
Meanwhile, economists cheering from the pages of corporate newspapers inform us that the GDP growth rate is phenomenal, unprecedented. Shops are overflowing with consumer goods. Government storehouses are overflowing with grain. Outside this circle of light, the past five years have seen the most violent increase in rural-urban income inequalities since independence. Farmers steeped in debt are committing suicide in hundreds; 40% of the rural population in India has the same foodgrain absorption level as sub-Saharan Africa, and 47% of Indian children under three suffer from malnutrition.
At least on the above point you don't know what you are talking about. India had several other "Muslim Presidents" in the past - Dr. ZAKIR HUSSAIN (1967-1969), JUSTICE. M. HIDAYATULLAH (JULY -AUGUST, 1969 'acting'), FAKHRUDDIN ALI AHMED (1974-1977), Dr. AVUL PAKIR JAINULABHUDIN ABDUL KALAM (FROM JULY 25, 2002).
because technology companies lose their capacity to innovate.
How des one measure this capacity to innovate ? If one goes by the number of patents - the above arguement may not be valid at all. See this article about patents from India
In fact the increased number of patents from some research labs located in India may be one of the reasons for the trend of several US/EU companies setting up research labs in India.
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I picked up working DELL laptops (TFT color LCD/Pentium 166MHz + 48MB) for $10 each sometime back from a computer show/fleamarket... These were returns from lease used by some telecom companies... Works great... I have found similar stuff in a lot of shows - most of these will be missing Hard Disks so you may have to get an inexpensive 2GB HDD...
I have been using 2.6.0-test11 on a Pentium 300 MHz for sometime. It seems to be significantly faster than 2.4.20 that was being used earlier. The gradual "fillingup" of swap space related to 2.4.x and earlier kernels seem to have disappeared (at least for now...)...
When inexpensive Japanese elecronics started flooding the market they were considered cheap and unreliable. How about the preception now ? Similarly for goods from Taiwan, Korea, China,... Probably something similar is happening in the case of India.
Secondly, DVD has a heck of a market share. I suppose if anything has a population to take a chunk out of market share, it would be China. However, from observation, it would be difficult to budge the hold that DVD currently has.
DVD (players, disks) is too expensive even at the current prices for countries like China, India,... Due to this in domestic markets of these countries you will find mostly only VHS or VCD versions movies. In addition to this most of the players (VHS, VCD, DVD) are now manufactured in China. It will be easy for them to include any new format in units manufactured in China (remember that most of the DVD players coming from China right now are capable of region free DVD playing with both PAL and NTSC capability).
These domestic markets are very price sensitive - if a new cheaper format (cheaper player, disks,...) is made available which offers higher quality than VCDs (probably with the advantage of a movie being able to be recorded in a single disk - as against multiple disks per movie required for VCDs) then people will promptly switchover to the ne format - noone will even bother about the DVD format.
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In practice very few of those MIT/Caltech graduates go back and work for institutions like ISRO in India (yes a few of them go back to teach in schools like IITs in India). From my experience, most of the people who work for Indian space and related programes had their education in India.
But what professional-quality ebooks are lawfully distributed DRM-free?
There quite a few publishers with "DRM free only" e-books. For example:
http://www.manning.com/
http://oreilly.com/
http://www.linuxjournal.com/
Encourage them if you do not like DRMed books.
The probability that one will need stem cells from cord blood is very low. Most of the treatment methods are highly experimental and applicable only to a handful of groups. Most of these conditions are identifiable during genetic tests and screening during pregnancy.
At least some of the public blood banks which collect cord blood promise that if you donate cord blood and in future a need arises they will try to locate cord blood which will match the donor (or try to give the donated blood if it is still available). Try to locate a public blood bank which operates like that.
Published in 1984 The UNIX Programming Environment by Brian W. Kernighan and Rob Pike - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Unix_Programming_Environment . The book remains interesting, useful and relevant even now after more than 27 years. It remains a 'must read' for anyone who uses UNIX like systems. Compare this with most of the 'Programming Books' now, which goes out of date within a few months after publishing.
As said somewhere else in this thread, comparing Emirates to AA is really comparing apples to orange. AA is .
This is incorrect. I KNOW that AA is not
multiple times cheaper
- at least for the routes I take. In fact even the actual paid ticket price is comparable (if you compare the maintenance, service, food, checked in charges it may turn out to be cheaper than AA).
, random resets in the middle of movies (with no recourse but to watch the whole movie over again)
That must be a really poorly designed system. I have experience using IFES of a number of non-US carriers - I found them to be really sophisticated and reliable applications (approaching the level of complexity of an operating system). At least in the case of ICE (Emirates) it is Linux (Redhat).
aliens in Asimov's Childhood's End
Childhood's End is by Arthur C. Clarke
I use one of the older motherboards from VIA (VIA PC-1 PC2500 uses C7 CPU - FlexATX - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VIA_pc-1_Initiative ) with a minibox M3ATX ( http://www.mini-box.com/M3-ATX-DC-DC-ATX-Automotive-Computer-car-PC-Power-Supply ) powersupply to run the whole system from battery (13.8V DC). The system uses a microdrive/SSD for booting with a standard Debian X86 install.
With 2G RAM power consumption is approximately 25W. It handles remote desktop, webserver, live multiple VOIP audio streams, ... with a lot of reserve power left. This is a remote unattended system (no physical access) - It has been running almost continuously for the past more than 2 years.
I thought it was disappointing for a pilot episode. I know it is too early (may be it will improve). A combination of the bad elements from SGA and BSG ! Stereotyping of people who work in technology and science. Looks like they plan to stretch it like BSG.
The attitude of the (US) airport security personnel also depends on the locality I guess (I am assuming that most of them are recruited locally).
For example in a tiny airport like Providence (PVD) one will often find unbelievably arrogant security personnel. Security personnel in larger (attached to larger cities) airports - for example like Detroit (DTW) - are often more polite and reasonable.
I am referring to US domestic air travel.
The Ruppee IS fixed against the dollar. The reason why it was lowered was because good were expensive in India. When they started increasing the value against the dollar, IBM, Verizon, and a number of software companies threatened to pull out of there and return to the USA. As such, India put it back to 48. ...
This should be moderated as "funny" or "Troll" - I hope someone will do that :)
Right now, the Rupee is FORCED by India to trade at 48 rupee to a dollar.
Not correct - during the past 2 years INR (Indian Rupee) has fluctuated between around 37 to 52 to a USD (right now it is around 48 - exchange rate changes almost daily).
I am quoting from a local language news paper ( http://www.keralakaumudi.com/ ) from India:
Preliminary analysis shows that Chandrayan likely failed due to inadequate heat shielding (problem was radiated heat from the Moon) causing some of the instruments to fail (like Star Sensor). They raised the orbit to around 200km (from the initial 100km) to save the mission and it did not help much.
According to the report Chandrayan was successful in completing 95 percent of the mission objectives. The reports also said that they (ISRO) are going ahead with the next moon mission.
(2) History has shown that DRM doesn't work...
I remember an online vendor of technical documents which went from no DRM document distribution to highly restrictive DRMed document distribution. This eventually antagonized most of their user base and they actually lost a major portion of their users.
DRM initially gives (especially to the managers) an impression of being an effective way to get more revenue by squeezing the users. Within a short period of time users will find ways to get the same information through other means (irrespective of the sophistication of technology used to implement DRM).
Probably because PICAXE Microcontrollers can be programmed in a simple subset of BASIC.
It is very easy to write code, program and debug (they don't require a special programming interface). They are **really simple** to use, very powerful and versatile.
The lost opportunities and economic stagnation of the past 50 years under the social welfare state show how such narrow mindsets can wreak havoc on a country.
This (often repeated) story about "lost opportunities during first 50 years of India" etc is a myth. It shows a lack of understanding of post independence history of India.
When India became independent there were groups of politicians who repeatedly argued against setting up of national laboratories and research institutions that exist in India right now. They argued that there is no need to "waste" money in those for a country like India, since one can always buy things from outside. If India had followed that approach it would be society with significant problems with poverty and related social tensions right now (If you need proof just look at the state of development of society in the country which is neighbor to India, which became independent during the same time).
It is ridiculous to not to notice significant success of poverty reduction and increase in living standard in a complex society like India without creating major social tensions (if you do not know - famines with repeated crop failures were common in pre-independence India). A lot of the credit for this goes to development of strong independent research and industrial base during the early stages (Indian space program is a part of this).
I used to live near Cincinnati and work on Shortwave Amateur Radio bands a few years back. During a recent visit to that area I noticed extremely strong RFI (radio frequency intereference) on AM and othe bands while driving through - probably the result of the introdiction of BPL service in that area ? From my experience - it will be impossible to use these frequencies for normal communication use.
I am amazed that a services like BPL which caues widespread RFI like this is allowd to operate.
Also since so much of this is being radialted all over the place it will be only a matter of time beofore somone taps into these signals and opens an easily accessible backdor to this type of internet connection (park your vehicle near a powerline - hack in !)
Obviously you have absolutely no idea what you are talikng about. To quote from an article by Arundhati Roy:
Meanwhile, economists cheering from the pages of corporate newspapers inform us that the GDP growth rate is phenomenal, unprecedented. Shops are overflowing with consumer goods. Government storehouses are overflowing with grain. Outside this circle of light, the past five years have seen the most violent increase in rural-urban income inequalities since independence. Farmers steeped in debt are committing suicide in hundreds; 40% of the rural population in India has the same foodgrain absorption level as sub-Saharan Africa, and 47% of Indian children under three suffer from malnutrition.
the first Muslim president of India
At least on the above point you don't know what you are talking about. India had several other "Muslim Presidents" in the past - Dr. ZAKIR HUSSAIN (1967-1969), JUSTICE. M. HIDAYATULLAH (JULY -AUGUST, 1969 'acting'), FAKHRUDDIN ALI AHMED (1974-1977), Dr. AVUL PAKIR JAINULABHUDIN ABDUL KALAM (FROM JULY 25, 2002).
because technology companies lose their capacity to innovate.
How des one measure this capacity to innovate ? If one goes by the number of patents - the above arguement may not be valid at all. See this article about patents from India
In fact the increased number of patents from some research labs located in India may be one of the reasons for the trend of several US/EU companies setting up research labs in India.
I picked up working DELL laptops (TFT color LCD/Pentium 166MHz + 48MB) for $10 each sometime back from a computer show/fleamarket ... These were returns from lease used by some telecom companies ... Works great ... I have found similar stuff in a lot of shows - most of these will be missing Hard Disks so you may have to get an inexpensive 2GB HDD ...
I have been using 2.6.0-test11 on a Pentium 300 MHz for sometime. It seems to be significantly faster than 2.4.20 that was being used earlier. The gradual "fillingup" of swap space related to 2.4.x and earlier kernels seem to have disappeared (at least for now ...) ...
This is nothing unusual:
... Probably something similar is happening in the case of India.
When inexpensive Japanese elecronics started flooding the market they were considered cheap and unreliable. How about the preception now ? Similarly for goods from Taiwan, Korea, China,
Secondly, DVD has a heck of a market share. I suppose if anything has a population to take a chunk out of market share, it would be China. However, from observation, it would be difficult to budge the hold that DVD currently has.
... Due to this in domestic markets of these countries you will find mostly only VHS or VCD versions movies. In addition to this most of the players (VHS, VCD, DVD) are now manufactured in China. It will be easy for them to include any new format in units manufactured in China (remember that most of the DVD players coming from China right now are capable of region free DVD playing with both PAL and NTSC capability).
...) is made available which offers higher quality than VCDs (probably with the advantage of a movie being able to be recorded in a single disk - as against multiple disks per movie required for VCDs) then people will promptly switchover to the ne format - noone will even bother about the DVD format.
DVD (players, disks) is too expensive even at the current prices for countries like China, India,
These domestic markets are very price sensitive - if a new cheaper format (cheaper player, disks,
Not enough if you want to track / log / audit data exchange going on ...